Caught the little bastards building a nest behind the shudders. Yeah I see you.

Pre-emptive strike tonight.

Just remember what Otto von Bismarck said about “preemptive” hostilities: 'Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.'

The fact that they exist is hostility. There can be no peace while they draw breath.

So you see, they started it.

Yeah in my mailbox this week. Found out Spectracide is worthless even after two applications. Hot Shot with the foam did the trick.

Thank you for the reminder. I've got a nest in the ground that needs some low octane tonight and its just about to get dark.
I almost re-ran over it yesterday w/ the mower. They are done tonight.
ETA: Still a little light out. I see one going in every 15 sec. or so.
ETA II: I may have spilled a half gallon in the hole. Moved away and then lit it. It burned like a candle for a good min. and then I put a rock on top till I mow again.

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I found a next a week ago with my weed whacker. Little fuckers got me a good 20 times, got inside my shorts and shirt. Followed my in the house too. Oh and I’m allergic to bee stings. This isn’t over

Little bit of Sevin dust will do them in quickly. Be careful, don’t use too much. Just around their entrance way.
It kills bees too, so be careful.

Apply a solvent of your choice. Paint thinner, lacquer thinner, acetone, spray brake cleaner etc all drop them instantly. They can’t even fly a mm.

I use brake cleaner when they flap into the garage. Drops me in flight. But it too expensive for a full assault.

Growing up, dad worked for Ma Bell. Since he'd occasionally have to climb poles, he had in his work truck the old spray cans of... freon. That stuff would shoot up a telephone pole to freeze off a nest with marksman precision.

Now that stuff was fun to kill those bastards!

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Originally posted by Sigfest:
Little bit of Sevin dust will do them in quickly. Be careful, don’t use too much. Just around their entrance way.
It kills bees too, so be careful.

This, though less satisfying than the gasoline treatment, it virtually guarantees a clean kill of the nest. A couple tablespoons at the entry hole, the bastards land and track it in. When they try to fly away, it gets them too! Just try to watch the area for a second entry if its a big nest. I had a nest that burrowed under the pad for my AC condenser a few years back. Killed it this way, and even though the dust appears gone, no one has come to try and recolonize the hole yet.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Yeah in my mailbox this week.

I don't know what it is about them, but mailboxes attract yellowjackets and black widows.

This looks like an effective way to smite our enemy

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Originally posted by K0ZZZ:
Growing up, dad worked for Ma Bell. Since he'd occasionally have to climb poles, he had in his work truck the old spray cans of... freon. That stuff would shoot up a telephone pole to freeze off a nest with marksman precision.

Now that stuff was fun to kill those bastards!

This made me laugh. My grandfather started work for "Ma Bell" around 1912, after he graduated from high school in Nashville. Worked for them till he retired at 65. So he retired about 2 years before I was born. I remember him as a crusty old curmudgeon, but I have a picture of him during WWI in a motorcycle w/sidecar when he was stringing phone lines in France. Prety cool. I use him as an excuse when I have to explain why I rode motorcycles for 35+ years.

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Little bit of Sevin dust will do them in quickly.

Usually. But I had a nest in some landscape timbers in a front garden that took multiple applications, and more than just a little dust, over a week or more, before it got them.

I was quite surprised, because, after two dead-of-night treatments didn't do it, I took a chance and applied it twice more while it was still daylight out so I could better see where I was applying it. I'd see them come and go right where I'd applied the stuff.

Yellowjackets are the assholes of the bee world for sure

Ran over a nest while mowing one day and the little bastards chased me all the way around the house.

If the neighbors saw me they probably had a good laugh. Running and swatting.

Bob

We discovered the damn things coming and going to an opening under our frame house. We videoed them from a distance with a zoom lens and decided it was a pretty big hive. We called an exterminator and they said "wow" and called a specialist. He came out wearing a space suit and went under there with smoke and removed a nest that weighted over 20 pounds. That was a potentially lethal hive. I recalled responding to a couple potentially fatal yellow jacket attacks back when I was on the street in south Florida. Be careful messing with those damn things they can be dangerous.

I purchased two traps off of Amazon and they filled up quickly and they keep going in. Just mixed the suggested ingredients and hang where they frequent.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I had the great idea to stuff a 2 liter bottle over the entry of the nest and then bang on it.

Looked like it was filling back up with soda for quite some time.